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Marvel was, in fact, in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con Saturday night this year. Only, it wasn’t Marvel Studios teasing the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it was Deadpool making its triumphant return since debuting the first footage from the first film back in 2015. And the return did not disappoint.
Deadpool 2 was released earlier this summer to critical and financial success but to promote the upcoming extended home version of the film, stars Ryan Reynolds, Zazie Beetz, Brianna Hildebrand and Stefan Kapičić along with director David Leitch and co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick did something of a victory lap in Hall H, answering fan questions, offering insight into production and, most importantly, showing clips from the “Super Duper $@%!#& Cut.”
As is the case with many superhero films, the most notable scene was the final one, both in the film and the one shown in the panel. It was the alternate extended end credits scene “X-Force” is just a marketing tool created by Fox to keep Josh Brolin employed), kill the Deadpool from X-Men Origins: Wolverine (with a few new lines of dialogue urging a young Hugh Jackman to team up with Deadpool) and killing Reynolds himself before he did Green Lantern.
But, in theatres, that’s where Deadpool 2 ended. Not in this cut.
In this version, there’s one more scene. We’re in an old nursery and Deadpool says “Boy howdy, this is touchy” as he approaches a crib. In the crib is an adorable baby, wiggling around as babies do. One of the baby’s arms is over his head and Deadpool remarks that he’s “practising a little salute,” but can’t quite do it.
“This is so much harder than I thought,” he says. He paces. He grabs his head. “I’m going to hell. Well, that makes two of us,” he jokes. “This is crazy, this is crazy,” he debates out loud. Only then do we see the name on the nursery: “A. Hitler.”
And then he does it. In a point of view shot from the baby’s perspective, we see Deadpool’s hands come right at the camera as if he’s going to choke the baby. “Maximum effort,” he says. And that was the end.
And with that, Hall H at Comic-Con ripped into shocked, excited applause. Many even rose to their feet, both for the scene and for the entire panel, which had a few other interesting tidbits as well.
- An early version of Deadpool 2 was about the character trying to steal a chair from The Voice.
- Reynolds hopes that in future movies, Wade’s pansexuality is explored even more.
- He acknowledged that both Origins and Green Lantern are pretty bad, but he doesn’t hate them because they have given Deadpool so many great jokes.
- Another deleted scene was shown of Wade acting as almost a father in the X-Mansion, except that he filled a soap dispenser with semen.
The Deadpool extended cut Blu-ray hits August 21 and digital August 7.
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14 responses to “Deadpool 2 Brought Comic-Con To Its Feet By Killing Hitler”
I like deadpool, and I get the whole “stop Hitler” thing, but killing a baby in a movie always feels like a super pathetic “im so fucking edgy” stunt to pull. I get that was probably the point, and I have made way worse jokes myself, maybe im just getting to old, but that makes me not really want to see that version of the movie
Um… ok… why?
Why not?
Cause like, what does it add?
Your asking that about Deadpool? For real? Have you even read his comics?
This act doesn’t make sense in the context of the film, which was literally about saving a kid to alter a future where he is a monster.
I don’t mind the shock value or another hitler reference in pop culture, but it’s the inconsistency which doesn’t sit well. And that’s beyond the established inconsistency deadpool is allowed to toy with.
Meh.
Well it happens in the post credit scene which contextually makes sense.
Otherwise it’s Deadpool. No sense required.
Mmmm-mmmm! Love me some infanticide!
I pose this question to you:
At what point is it ethically acceptable to kill Hitler in his lifetime?
After the holocaust?
Right before the holocaust?
Before he gets into power?
After he drops out of art school?
Baby Hitler?
Somewhere in between?
And the hardest question:
Would you do it?He participated in the First Word War, too. You could say that it would’ve been acceptable to murder him since he was on the front lines and it was the norm, though the British Soldier who had the opportunity didn’t do so out of his own humanity.
Operation Valkyrie took place since they were losing the war. Not out of any ‘real’ ethical concern, however.
I bet that guy had some regrets later.
Answers:
1: Anytime
2: Yes
3: Yes
4: Yes
5: Yes
6: Yes
7: Yes
8: Yes
There is no bad or unethical way to kill someone who was the cause of close to 50 million deaths. Killing Hitler is a victimless crime.
Only if you think hard determinism is true and free will does not exist. In that case, you can almost pity Adolf since he never would have had a choice to be a good person.
If ‘you’ find something wrong or offensive with the deliberate killing of Hitler, then the prolem is with you, not the act.